MARVELLOUS MEN OF MARS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1976, 11 January 1907, Page 4

MARVELLOUS MEN OF MARS.

Marconi believes that within a tiecade it will bo possible to send a message through 00,000,0b0 miles of space. Ho thinks that tho first agency capable of reaching Mars will be the heliograph. Why ? Because it is an accepted scientific fact that light carries a much greater distance than sound or its equivalent. But, while the heliograph will be the pathfinder through the immensities of space, there is every reason to believe that it will simply bo the forerunner of wireless telegraphy as it is now being developed. It may occur to some people that Mars may not be inhabited by intelligent creatures who could understand or answer us. For instance, our ea rth before the age of steam was not in a condition to be introduced socially to other planets. As answer to this Marconi refers to Professor Lowell. Only very recently he succeeded in photographing the socalled Martian canals. From their straightness he is certain they are not natural, but the work of intelligent beings. Their stupendous size, he assorts, proves that tho diggers are not only creatures of great size and strength, but greatly advanced in . tho use of mechanical devices. Such beings could easily communicate their answer to our planet.